A Better Tomorrow
- Sun, Mar 1
- Mon, Mar 2
- Wed, Mar 4
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: John Woo Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: Chinese
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu Bo-Yee, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung, Waise Lee Chi-Hung
Brothers by blood. Enemies by chance. Killers by nature.
Welcome to the birth of the Heroic Bloodshed era of Hong Kong cinema as we are proud to present John Woo’s masterpiece A Better Tomorrow!
When a deal goes disastrously wrong, loyalty is tested, friendships fracture, and revenge becomes unavoidable. As Ho attempts redemption and Kit is pulled deeper into moral compromise, the film builds toward a tragic reckoning where honor, survival collide in a storm of gunfire.
A Better Tomorrow’s influence is impossible to overstate: slow-motion violence, tragic brotherhood, trench coats, and moral codes, the list goes on and on.
Our Hong Kong Action Essentials series explores the time from the mid-’80s through the early ’90s, where Hong Kong filmmakers rewrote the grammar of action cinema forever. Directors like John Woo, Tsui Hark, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, and Lau Kar-Leung fused balletic gunplay, risky stunts, martial arts virtuosity, and raw emotional intensity into a new cinematic language that would be oft-imitated but never replicated. (sorry, The Matrix, we love you too!) Join us every month in 2026 as we explore this golden age where style and emotional collided to change movies forever.